<div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">Congratulations Sheldon! Thanks for all your terrific business & tech history scholarship & amazing, dedicated service to the community!!!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Best, Jeff</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><b><font color="#222222">* * * * * *</font></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. </b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Director, Charles Babbage Institute for Computing, Information & Culture</b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Research Professor, History of Sci., Tech., Med., University of Minnesota</b><b></b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b> </b></div></div></div><div dir="ltr"><div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"><a href="https://press.jhu.edu/books/title/12804/just-code" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><i>Just Code: Power, Inequality and the Political Economy of IT</i> (Johns Hopkins U. Press out in Nov. 2025 co-edited w/ Gerardo Con Diaz)</a> </b></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><a href="https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000"><i>Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry</i> (MIT Press)</font></a></b><b style="color:rgb(56,118,29)"></b></div><div><b><font color="#cc0000"><a href="https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/series/studies-computing-and-culture" target="_blank">Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press</a> </font></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor (w/ Con Diaz)</span></div><div><font color="#222222"><b>PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."</b></font></div><div><a href="https://www.blockchainandsociety.com" target="_blank"><font color="#38761d"><b>Blockchain & Society</b></font></a><font color="#38761d"><b> (crit. inq. essays & resources)</b></font> (Founder/Leader)</div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><a href="https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces" target="_blank"><font color="#000000">Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture</font></a> </i></b><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Co-Editor-in-Chief (w/ Amanda Wick)</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></p></div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Aug 21, 2025, 2:24 PM Deborah Douglas via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Joining the chorus expressing thanks for your support and service over the years! Very glad to know Melissa will be on the job.</div>
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<b>From: </b>Members <<a href="mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org</a>> on behalf of HOCHHEISER, SHELDON H via Members <<a href="mailto:members@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">members@lists.sigcis.org</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Thursday, August 21, 2025 at 2:23 PM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">members@sigcis.org</a> <<a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">members@sigcis.org</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>Sheldon Hochheiser <<a href="mailto:shochh@optonline.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">shochh@optonline.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [SIGCIS-Members] Retirement announcement<br>
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<span style="font-size:11pt">One more thing—</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt">Going forward, the AT&T Archives and History Center Warren NJ facility will be in the good hands of Archives Manager Melissa Knoll,
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She has been with the archives for nine years.</span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Members <<a href="mailto:members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">members-bounces@lists.sigcis.org</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>HOCHHEISER, SHELDON H via Members<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 21, 2025 2:01 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:members@sigcis.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">members@sigcis.org</a><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Sheldon Hochheiser <<a href="mailto:shochh@optonline.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">shochh@optonline.net</a>><br>
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<span style="font-size:1pt;color:white">I am retiring from my position as AT&T Corporate Historian and Manager of the AT&T Archives and History Center Warren NJ facility, which holds all of he records of Bell Labs through 1995. Tomorrow, August 22 is my
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<span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">I am retiring from my position as AT&T Corporate Historian and Manager of the AT&T Archives and History Center Warren NJ facility, which holds all of he records of Bell Labs through 1995.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">Tomorrow, August 22 is my last day at AT&T. My <a href="http://att.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">att.com</a> email address will not work after tomorrow. I can be reached at my personal email
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<span style="font-size:11pt;line-height:150%">I need help from the SIGCIS list administrator. I can not figure out how to update my listserv subscription to my personal email account.</span></p>
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